Emergency Preparedness & Response Planning

Strengthen the ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and learn from workplace emergencies.

Course overview

Proposed duration: eight guided learning hours. Designed for managers, safety practitioners and those who contribute to emergency arrangements. Content will be tailored to workplace risk, location, sector and applicable legal duties.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify credible emergency scenarios and evaluate their potential consequences
  • Define emergency roles, escalation triggers and communication responsibilities
  • Develop practical response arrangements and continuity interfaces
  • Plan drills and exercises with measurable learning objectives
  • Evaluate response performance and track corrective actions

Proposed eight-section structure

  • 1. Emergency risk context and foreseeable scenarios
  • 2. Planning principles, roles and responsibilities
  • 3. Alarm, notification and escalation arrangements
  • 4. Evacuation, shelter and accounting for people
  • 5. Medical response and external emergency-service coordination
  • 6. Crisis communication and stakeholder management
  • 7. Exercises, simulations and plan validation
  • 8. Recovery, lessons learned and applied assessment

Practical exercises

Participants will work through an evolving emergency scenario, identify decision points, prepare a communication tree and critique an example response plan. Exercises will emphasise local adaptation rather than a one-size-fits-all template.

Assessment and status

A combination of scenario decisions, knowledge checks and a final planning task is proposed. The course remains in development and its stated learning hours will be validated before release.

Enquire about this programme

This course or service is in development. Contact ICPE GLOBAL to register your interest, discuss organisational requirements or request an update. Course duration, availability and accreditation status will be confirmed before enrolment.